lightning conductor
Example Sentences
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You hear of microphones being hit by lightning; and the scaffolding around the stage is basically a lightning conductor.
From BBC • May 22, 2018
Kennedy’s firsthand experience of visceral hunger in America ran as a lightning conductor through his run for the White House.
From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2018
In general, Shapiro sees Shakespeare in a more benign context as a lightning conductor for American political and economic culture.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2016
Wayne Rooney will always be a lightning conductor for debate and conjecture in an England context.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2014
Sometimes the pole would be seen to point straight upward, like a lightning conductor, while the infuriated animals appeared sparring with their fore-legs at an imaginary enemy.
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Lever, Charles James
